Don't be a tosser

Local communities will be cleaner thanks to an injection of $339,000 from the NSW Government for the rollout of litter prevention campaigns across the State.

The 21 successful projects will see individual and groups of councils use the Council Litter Prevention Campaign Resource Kit to help stamp out rubbish in our streets, parks and waterways.

The wide range of projects includes:

• $30,000 for Hurstville City Council working together with Kogarah, Rockdale and Sutherland councils for No tossers in our schools - a High School competition to produce a digital commercial that promotes anti-litter messages to a youth audience through media, such as YouTube, Facebook and Battle of the Bands
• $14,000 for Netwaste (a collaborative resource and waste management project of the Central West and Orana Regional Councils) for Don't waste our western highways - a campaign to cut the litter thrown alongside major highways west of Dubbo. The campaign will use posters, litter bags, fact sheets and a survey distributed to tourist information centres, services stations and councils
• $10,000 for City of Sydney for Green Clean Chinatown – a pilot campaign to increase awareness of the impact of litter among businesses in the Chinatown area using an education kit and a series of bilingual promotional events.

The Council Litter Prevention Grants Program continues the NSW Government's Don't be a tosser campaign which raises awareness about the impact of litter on the environment.

Additionally, the NSW Government and local councils have issued more than 7,000 littering fines this year.

For more information

• call (02) 8837 6000
• email sustainability@environment.nsw.gov.au